Yvonne Agnew > Slater and Gordon > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
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Yvonne Agnew
Work Department
Medical Negligence
Position
Yvonne is a Principal Lawyer in our Cardiff office. She has over 25 years’ experience dealing with complex and high value clinical negligence cases. She has extensive experience in all types of clinical negligence cases, particularly in relation to high value and complex birth injury, brain and spinal/vascular injury claims.
Yvonne is frequently mentioned in legal directories and praised for her ability to achieve high awards of damages in maximum severity cases. She has been involved achieving some of the highest value settlements in the UK, including a recent award worth £19 million.
Yvonne’s expertise was recognised when she was asked to form part of the working party appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government to advise on the implementation of the Redress Act in Wales.
Career
Yvonne began her legal career in 1986, joined Leo Abse and Cohen in 1999 and became a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in 2015.
Memberships
Yvonne is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), a member of AvMA specialist panel and an accredited member of Law Society CN specialist panel (double Law Society and AvMA specialist panel accreditation).
Lawyer Rankings
Wales > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading individuals)The ‘highly committed’ team at Slater and Gordon ‘works well together’ to ensure that clients are ‘extremely well-served’ across a range of high-value and complex cases, where they also benefit from access to complementary services including Court of Protection and trusts services, if necessary. Team head Yvonne Agnew is ‘one of the foremost UK experts in birth injury cases’, and as well as her continued involvement in high-profile cases is also a vital mentor for more junior practitioners within the group. Julia Reynolds is a ‘pleasure to deal with’, overseeing the work handled by the catastrophic clinical negligence team across Wales, with herself having particular expertise representing clients in obstetric cases and those involving paediatric brain damage. At a senior associate level, Lara Bennett is a ‘dedicated and skilful claimant lawyer’, while Kelly Lloyd-Davies ‘has a solid grasp of the issues in each case’, including on birth injury as well as delayed or missed diagnosis claims.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Wales > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Clinical negligence: claimant Wales > Insurance